Honestly, that whole de-pegging mess really got to me. When you're deploying stables into yield farming, the baseline expectation is pretty straightforward—you keep your value. That's literally the trade-off.

You lock up capital for farming rewards, right? But the one thing that should never budge is the stable coin itself. That's the whole premise. You're not taking risk on the token's peg; you're taking risk on yield protocols and smart contract security. The moment a stable coin starts losing ground against the dollar, the whole equation breaks.

It's not just about missing gains—it's about fundamental trust. If stables can't reliably maintain their peg in DeFi, then what are we even farming with? You need that base layer to be rock solid, otherwise you're not hedging exposure, you're gambling on top of gambling.